Quotes about Adventure

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What was 'Apollo' really about?

This zest to explore and exploit, however thoughtless its agents may have been, has clear survival value. It is not restricted to any one nation or ethnic group. It is an endowment that all members of the human species hold in common.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

Walking toward the music" isn't a bad philosophy of life. Doors might seem closed, the evening might seem prematurely over, but if you can catch a glimpse of nightlife or hear the sound of music in the distance, why not walk toward it and see what you find?

I had envisioned that this would be a short book, about half of what it has become. Once I opened up the Scriptures, however, it was like the glaciers melted and the dams overflowed, and I had to ride the rivers way downstream. I hope you enjoy and learn from the ride.